Bug 1444371 (CVE-2017-7980) - CVE-2017-7980 Qemu: display: cirrus: OOB r/w access issues in bitblt routines
Summary: CVE-2017-7980 Qemu: display: cirrus: OOB r/w access issues in bitblt routines
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2017-7980
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1444372 1444373 1444377 1444378 1444379 1444380 1444382 1444383 1444384 1444385 1444387 1444388 1444390 1444391 1444392 1444393 1444394 1445559
Blocks: 1432498
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-04-21 08:59 UTC by Prasad Pandit
Modified: 2021-02-17 02:14 UTC (History)
39 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
An out-of-bounds r/w access issue was found in QEMU's Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA Emulator support. The vulnerability could occur while copying VGA data via various bitblt functions. A privileged user inside a guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process or, potentially, execute arbitrary code on the host with privileges of the QEMU process.
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:10:57 UTC

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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:1205 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: qemu-kvm-rhev security update 2017-05-09 15:07:02 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:1206 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: qemu-kvm security update 2017-05-09 16:29:49 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:1430 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: qemu-kvm security and bug fix update 2017-06-13 11:26:41 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:1441 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: qemu-kvm-rhev security and bug fix update 2017-06-14 19:20:20 UTC

Description Prasad Pandit 2017-04-21 08:59:32 UTC 
Quick emulator(Qemu) built with the Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA Emulator support is
vulnerable to an out-of-bounds r/w access issues. It could occur while copying
VGA data via various bitblt functions.

A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu process
resulting in DoS OR potentially execute arbitrary code on a host with
privileges of Qemu process on the host.

Upstream patches:
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  -> http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=026aeffcb4752054830ba203020ed6eb05bcaba8
  -> http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=ffaf857778286ca54e3804432a2369a279e73aa7

Reference:
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  -> http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/21/1
Comment 1 Prasad Pandit 2017-04-21 09:00:09 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: Jiangxin (PSIRT Huawei Inc.), Li Qiang (Qihoo 360 Gear Team)
Comment 2 Prasad Pandit 2017-04-21 09:02:18 UTC 
Created xen tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1444373]
Comment 3 Prasad Pandit 2017-04-21 09:02:41 UTC 
Created qemu tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1444372]
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2017-05-09 11:09:17 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  RHEV 3.X Hypervisor and Agents for RHEL-6

Via RHSA-2017:1205 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1205
Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2017-05-09 12:48:54 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2017:1206 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1206
Comment 19 errata-xmlrpc 2017-06-13 07:27:45 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:1430 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1430
Comment 20 errata-xmlrpc 2017-06-14 15:35:15 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6

Via RHSA-2017:1441 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1441
Comment 21 Fedora Update System 2017-07-25 21:24:47 UTC 
qemu-2.7.1-7.fc25 has been pushed to the Fedora 25 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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